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Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* October 2, 2022, is a special day for all of us as we are celebrating both Gandhi Jayanti and Shastri Jayanti. Mahatma Gandhi and Lal Bahadur Shastri share a birthday and a place in India’s societal…

By Vivek Atray One of the greatest gurus of all time was Lahiri Mahasaya, originally known as Shyama Charan Lahiri, who hailed from Banarasand was the exemplar of balanced living that could lead to the highest exalted states. Lahiri…

By Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* The world is lurching from crisis to crisis, trapped in a cycle of firefighting and unable to tackle the roots of the troubles that confront us. Without a sharp change, of course, we may be heading towards…

By Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* Violence against women in India and the world is devastatingly pervasive and was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic triggering harm to millions of women and their families, especially younger…

By Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* On September 21, 2022, amid growing incidents of hate speech, the Supreme Court expressed serious concern over the absence of an effective institutional mechanism to regulate the media and questioned the…

By Dr Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* Addressing from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi on the occasion of the country's 76th Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi threw light on the Centre's “Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav”, and…

By Amrita Singh* Kokyo Hatanaka is a contemporary Nihonga artist, an eminent author, and an avid collector. Born in 1947 in Nara, Hatanaka completed his graduation from Otani University and studied the ancient art form of Nihonga at…

By Prof Satya Narayan Misra* Jean -Luc -Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for classics like Breathless (1960) and Contempt (1963), which broke with convention, inspired iconoclasm, and helped kick start a new…

By Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* A bizarre drama is unfolding in front of our eyes. When a nation is plagued by grueling problems of price rise, poverty, hunger, inequality, and unemployment, a lot of valuable time was wasted debating…

By Dr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra* Since the inception of neo-liberalism, if something is given to the poor, then it is treated with disdain, labelled as anti-reforms and antagonistic to growth. But if anything is given to rich/corporates-…